Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

I'm starting to believe that Hollywood and/or it's film "writers" (a term that I loosely use) has a templating system for their scripts. The last two films I saw in the theatre were remarkably the same: Blade Trinity and Elektra. If they were using a template, you could call it lame because neither made an attempt to do ANYTHING. Blade Trinity had explosions and sword fighting while Elektra had lots of sword fighting. Both had generic levels of angst and both kinda made similar trips to special effects (compare how the vampires died to the way the ninjas dissipated). The sad thing is that you could tell people weren't trying, just like I'm not trying in writing about this. But that's the thing about Hollywood these days: it's empty and unmotivated. I recently got myself Netflix and have been enjoying films that don't rely on CG, explosions and just bignames. Now these two were based on comic books, but I don't see why people are forced to buy into explosions and deaths occurring at precisely predictable moments (except for that incident where they try to give you a cheap thrill for a split second). They need to explore the characters more and depart from what's inside the comic book. Outside of Spiderman and X-Men, I've regretted each comic book movie that has come out thus far.